The hype about De La Rey.

I write this post in reference to the posts on my friend Cobus’ site http://emergingsa.wordpress.comabout De La Rey.  In his post the themes of Afrikanerism, Racism, Patriotism etc. comes to the foreground.  However I would like to take on the subject of interpretation, interpretation in the media and of theology.

The Prestige: Deceit.

What is brilliant about the movie is how the director / screen writer deceives his audience, where everything clearly isn’t what it seems and the a-chronological plot delaying the twists and turns as far as possible. 

I guess that deceit as we see it in this film also forms a part of our normal lives. 

The Prestige: Revenge

**Spoiler Warning**

In the movie The Prestige a lot of the characters’ motives are driven by revenge. Hugh Jackman’s character loses his wive in a stage accident and blames Christian Bale’s character, he then spends the rest of his life trying to get back at him – by stealing his acts, trying to kill him and framing him for his “death”. Borden in return tries to jeprodise Angier’s reputation and turns their mentor against him.

The Prestige – Obsession

This is truly a rich film, rich in twists, rich in themes, rich in good acting,  and I really do not know where to start. Luckily sites like Wikipedia exist helping me to arrange my thoughts, refreshing my memory and helping me to pick out some themes, therefore some of the themes Wikipedia  and myself identified are as follows:

1. Obsession.
2. Revenge.
3. Deceit.
4. Sacrifice.
5. Lifelessness.